[IRCA] KGOW 1560 TX still 50 kW nite?

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U S A. Interest in KGOW, 1560, seemed to vanish after its night on the world stage, running 50 kW as H. Ike was passing thru metro Houston. Perhaps everyone assumed it would immediately go back to 100+ watts at night. However, 5 nights later, UT Sept 18 at 0520, I found it again dominating the channel, but hardly with emergency programming relaying KPRC-2. Caught my ear with an amusing song, ``Go Away, Ike``, then adstring, including a local phone number, 713-666-1101 for geothermal air conditioning from Indoor Comfort Specialists, http://1560ac.com --- with a website like that I was beginning to wonder if this too was a parody, but it really worx, forwarding to http://www.indoorcomfortspecialist.com/ --- I assume this allows the sponsor and the station to track how many heard the ad on 1560. By clicking on it here you will help to skew those findings.

Then something about the Astros playing away. 0523 finally non-ID as ``1560 The Game``, and promo for John Granado Program on ``1560 The Train``, yuk2. In fact this and previous items were run twice in a row. At 0526 resumed current show which was a ``September 15 recap``, why? Trying to decide whether something was spelled jenkum or jenkem, and story about one of the hosts being hit in the face with a bag of dog urine and crap at some club. At this point I had had enough, sure anyway that it was really KGOW. While it did not overpower all the QRM on 1560, it certainly dominated even on a long-wire not aimed toward Houston. When running daytime facilities at night because of an emergency, isn`t it supposed to be non-commercial and with axual emergency info? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


      
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